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亚马逊被控勾结出版商抬高电子书价格达30%等 Amazon Is Accused of Driving Up the Price of E-Books 亚马逊被指抬高电子书价格 Amazon kick-started the e-book business when it introduced its Kindle in November 2007. 亚马逊在2007年11月推出Kindle时启动了电子书业务 Amazon. com Inc., which originally came up with the idea of charging bargain-basement prices for electronic books, is now being accused of forcing customers on other book sites to pay too much for them. 亚马逊。最初想出了向电子书收取低价的公司，现在却被指责强迫其他图书网站的用户支付过高的价格。 A lawsuit filed Thursday in a federal district court in New York alleges that a deal between Amazon and five major book publishers has led to higher e-book prices for all consumers, because it prevents rival retailers from selling any of these publishers’ e-books at a lower price than on Amazon. 周四，纽约一家联邦地区法院提起诉讼，称亚马逊与五家主要图书出版商之间的一项协议导致所有消费者的电子书价格更高，因为它阻止了竞争对手的零售商以低于亚马逊的价格销售这些出版商的电子书。 The suit, which was filed by the law firm Hagens Berman and is seeking class-action status, said Amazon charges high commissions and other costs to publishers, “which in turn significantly increases the retail price of the e-books they sell on Amazon.com.” As a result of the deal with the five big publishers, the price they charge on Amazon also has to be the price they charge everywhere else. 这起诉讼由哈根斯·伯曼律师事务所(Hagens Berman)提起，目前正在寻求集体诉讼地位。诉讼称，亚马逊向出版商收取高额佣金和其他费用，“这反过来又大大提高了他们在亚马逊网站上销售的电子书的零售价。”由于与五大出版商的交易，他们在亚马逊上收取的价格也必须是他们在其他地方收取的价格。 “In a competitive market, the Big Five could sell e-books at a lower price on their own websites or through Amazon’s retail competitors that offer lower commissions and fees,” the lawsuit said. 诉讼称：“在竞争激烈的市场中，五大书店可以在自己的网站上以更低的价格出售电子书，或者通过亚马逊的零售竞争对手，后者提供更低的佣金和费用。” Calling it a “conspiracy to fix the retail price of e-books,” the suit alleges that the deal between Amazon and the five publishers—which it said account for 80% of all books sold in the U.S.—violates antitrust law. 诉讼称这是“操纵电子书零售价格的阴谋”，称亚马逊与这五家出版商之间的交易违反了反垄断法。亚马逊称，这五家出版商占美国图书总销量的80%。 “If you are Barnes & Noble and your stores are in trouble and your Nook device didn’t go as far as you’d have liked, you would have liked to be able to say that your digital books are 10% cheaper than on Amazon,” said Gregory Arenson, an antitrust lawyer and partner at Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP. 卡普兰·福克斯·基尔斯海默律师事务所(Kaplan Fox&Kilsheima LLP)的反垄断律师兼合伙人格雷戈里·阿伦森(Gregory Arenson)说：“如果你是Barnes&Noble，你的门店陷入困境，你的Nook设备没有达到你想要的程度，你可能会说你的电子书比亚马逊便宜10%。” The five publishers cited in lawsuit are HarperCollins Publishers, whic ... ...